Synopses & Reviews
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State University
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"In these poets, avant-garde modernism is alive, greased, agile, on the prowl, unapologetic. . . . Here is an art that replaces the "I" with new figures and intensities. All the same, it recognizes the individual as the source of revolt. Gone is the preci
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"Evading every opportunity to be obvious and tedious, [Garthe's] poetry somehow skips beyond even the need to be subtle: it is simply unimaginably imaginative at every point. The writing is at once lean and fantastic, crisp and mobile. All but exclusively
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"Everything in Frayed escort resists the normative; the poems catapult the reader into an off-kilter arena of sensations. Karen Garthe's terrific feat is in giving us deep feeling by way of the particularities: these poems of great empathy bring dr
Synopsis
Winner of the 2005 Colorado Prize for Poetry
Published by the Center for Literary Publishing at Colorado State Universit
About the Author
Manhattan resident Karen Garthe's poems have appeared in Fence, Volt, New American Writing, Chicago Review, American Letters and Commentary, Global City Review, Exquisite Corpse, Brooklyn Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Torque, Beet, Gargoyle, No Roses Review, Colorado Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, and other literary journals.